WESTJjlRisr DEMOCRAT, GHABLOTTE,:. 3SY 0.
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CHARLOTTE, IV. C.
Xueiday, December 3, 1SG1.
THE NEWS.
XbiT? appears to bft nothiDg important from the camps,
jhe first X- C Cavalry lteginient has been quite success
j( s, fns, in two skirmishes with the enemy.
TV latest news from Pcnsacola and the neighborhood
. port Royal will be found in another column. We are
g ad to I'-arn that the farmers on the South Carolina coast
burning their crops to prevent their falling into the
tsnj? of the enemy.
The rumors from Manassas and Columbus, Ky.f indi-cat-
that great battles are expected at t'iose. points at an
early day.
TLe Lincoln government justifies the conduct of Capt.
Wilkes iu seizing the Southern Ministers. Capt. Wilkes
baa b' en feasted and toasted in all the Northern cities he
has vi.-ited. Xothmg has been heard from England on
:bf subject.
Thk Convention and the Speculators.--When it
vas announced that Mr. Badger had introduced an
Ordinance in the Convention to prevent speculation in
articles of necessity, we thought the probability was
that some good would be accomplished, but after wc
iavr the Ordinance, and learned of its vague and im
prHitkaMe provisions, we concluded that it would
amount to nothing if passed. The amendment offered
bv Judge R tiffin to exempt the producers from the
operation of the Ordinance would render it almost en
tirely useless. We are utterly opposed to legislating
against or for any particular class. The merchant is
not the only person guilty of charging high prices.
Some of the producers are beginning to imitate the
speculator and extortioner. For instance, there is no
more reason w hy butter should be held at 3D and 35
crnt per lb. than there is that $12 atid 15 should he
charged for a 6ack of salt. It seems to us that
neither class is entirely exempt from the charge of
bring extortioners at the present time. Of course all
the producers do not hold up for exorbitant prices,
neither do all the merchants, but bctweeu a portion of
ti e two classes everything to eat has been advanced in
price almost beyond the reach of those who are con
jumers alone. It is human nature like for everybody
to get as much as they can for any article they have to
tell, and our country friends are no more exempt from
this feeling than are the inhabitants of towns and vil
lages. We knowhat farmers are the bone and sinew
of the country, and as a class there are none more
j.Htriotic and liberal; and we further know that they
are frequently praised and complimented by those who
are anxious to be popular with them ; but we are dis
posed to think that all classes, the merchant aud the
producer, are entitled to a share of the blame for
the present high prices uoue are entirely exempt, but
probably the latter are less to blame than the former.
If the Conveutiou can regulate the matter so that all
enn obtain a fair and reasonable price for what is
offered for sale, and prevent extortion, it would prove
a blessing to all. But it is wrong aud impracticable
to legislate for or against one particular class in order
to prevent speculation and extortion. No good can
be accomplished in that way. We make these remarks
because they strike us as being fair, just and proper,
and because there seems to be a mistaken notion prev
alent, thitt the merchant alone is to blame for high
prices. We are aware that it is unpopular to insinuate
that the farmer would do anything wrong, but it would
be well to remember that all are liable to ftiults, the
farmer as well as the merchant.
While wheat is selling at $1.35 to $l."iO per bushel,
Pork at 10 cents, Bacon 25, and nearly every thing else
that is produced at much higher prices than formerly,
certainly our friends who sell these things have no
cause to complain of hard times. The consumer, the
professional man and the mechanic, are the persons
who are experiencing hard times. And if the mer
chant and farmer were both to agree to be satisfied
with smaller profits, those who are engaged in neither
of these occupations would be enabled to get along
better and support their families easier.
Jfiiy A merchant at Atlanta. Ga., proposes to sell
Salt at $2 per sack to those farmers who will sell him
their wheat at $1 per bushel at d pork at 8 cents.
The Concord Flag. Wm. M. Coleman, Esq., has
assumed the editorial chair of the Concord Flag, and
makes hi. debut in the last issue of that paper in a
well written and very sensible salutatory. Mr C. is a
gentleman of fine talents, and will no doubt use his
pen with ability and prudence. We wish him success
very way.
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A Just Complaint. The Wilmington Journal com
plains that the soldiers of the two North Carolina
Regiments of Volunteers, which recently went to the
South Carolina coast for the purpose of asssisting in
the defence of that State, are shaved on every cent of
North Carolina money they expand. This is not only
wrong, but it is outrageously unjust. The North Caro
lina Banks are as solvent as any in the country cer
tainly as safe as the South Carolina Banks and there
it no justness or fairness in the demand of the people
of our sister State that ten or fifteen per cent shall be
knocked off of every dollar of N. C. money offered by
our soldiers. There has always been a disposition on
the part of South Carolina to depreciate North Carolina
Bank notes, but we were not prepared to see such a
disposition continued and manifested at a time like the
present. For the sake of good feeling, if for nothing
else, we do hope a reform in this respect will be inau
gurated by the authorities of our neighboring State.
It would do them no harm at heme, and will certainly
do them much good abroad.
TV Tl T;i;i-r f.mrf W-irti.l -!;. .1. rnnnn'lr mat at '
Newbern to try Col. G B Siugletary on charges preferred j
by Gen Hill for "conduct prejudicial to good order and
military discipline," found the Colonel guilty and sen- j
tenced hitn 44 to be reprimanded in (.rne.al Orders, and ,
to besupend. d from rank, command, and pay for two .
mouths." We learn this from the published General Or
ders of Gen. Gatlin.
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The N. C. State Convention appears to be getting
along slowly with its work. Too much time it wasted
in unnecessary debate. Wc think the probability is
that the session will he prolonged till after Christmas.
Important matters are before the Convention for con
sideration. Various ordinances aud propositions to
rbange the old Constitution have been and are being
introduced. There is a proposition to electa Governor
to fill Gov. Ellis' unexpired time, also providing for the
regular election of a Lieutenant Governor by the peo
ple, who is to be Speaker of the Senate and receive the
same salary the Speaker of the House of Commons re-
ceives. In case of the death or resignation of the Gov
ernor, the Lt. Gov. is to take his place.
Propositions are pending to tax whiskey distilleries
higher, and to pay the war tax from the State Treasury. ;
Petitions from Gaston, Catawba, and other counties,
have been presented praying for the repeal of the Stay
Law; but we do not think the Convention will do any
thing with the matter. We learn that most of tfee
members are convinced of the impropriety of such a
law, but they are not disposed to interfere with the
action of the Legislature.
We believe no Ordinance has has jet been finallv
IMed.
Thb British Minister, akd ths akbkst or Sudell
and Mason. According to Northern correspondents
j and telegraphic dispatches, the British Minister at
Washington, Lord Lyons, is exceedingly wrathy about
the capture of Messrs Slidell and Mason from an
English vessel. Here is what one of these Northern
correspondents say about the matter :
" Lord Ljons has not behaved like a diplomatist
since the news of the capture of Masou and Slidell,
and emphatically is almost impertinent in conversa
tion, and assumes that the United States must yield
the point in controversy, and disavow the act of Wilkes
and return Mason and Slidell to England. '
The Spanish Miaister openly declared that if Mason
and Slidell had been taken from a Spanish ship he
would have immediately demanded his passports. '
Lord Lyons is said to have assumed a menacing
tone, and declared that Mason and Slidell must be
given up or ample reparation made for the offence
offered the British crown. Nothing of this kind has
been officially intimated, but in ordinary intercourse
these expressions of disapprobation and hostility have
been unguardedly made."
The Canada papers are open in their denunciations
of the course of the Lincoln Government.
gSThe northern papers say that the Lincoln Govern
ment succeeded in capturing a mail sent out for Messrs
Mason and Slidell after those gentlemen had sailed from
Charleston. It seems, according to the enemy's state
ment, that letters, dispatches, southern newspa
pers and bills of exchange were started to the South
ern Ministers via Havana, of which fact the Yankees ob
tained information by spies we suppose. The vessel
having this mail on board touched at New York and
was immediately searched by the Lincoln police and
the papers seized. Of course the bills of exchange will
be of no value to the Yankees.
The New York Herald says of the intercepted dis
patches: 4'It appears that the Government received informa
tion of the fact that a large quantity of private letters,
dispatches, bills of exchange, drafts, &c , had been
sent after Messrs Slidell and Mason from Havanna to N.
Y., to follow them to Europe by the Steamer from this
Port. But a few of our detectives were put on the
watch, and secured the whole batch of correspondence
before the steamer left. If the Government will fur
nish us with a copy of the inteicepted dispatches we
will make good use of them. The private letters, bills
of exchange, &c, being of no value now to any one,
may be retained by the State Department or forwarded
to Fort Warren, at the discretion of the Government.
Tub Invaders. Wherever the Lincolnites have land
ed on Southern soil, their tracks are marked by the
most unparalleled outrages upon Southern men, women
and children. Property of all kinds is either stolen or
destroyed by fire, and helpiess families are left house
less lor the winter by the torch of the very people who
have been enriched by the patronage of the South.
The British soldiers in time of the Revolution con
ducted themselves as gentlemen compared with the
conduct of '-our Northern brethren." They hesitate
not to arrest men on mere suspicion and inflict cruel
corporal punishment upon them, or send them to some
prison-house in the North, to die with disease or have
their health iaipared for life. A worse set of villains
never invaded any country than these same Yankee
tools of a corrupt and tyrannical Administration at
Washington. The people of the South, "every man,
must resolve to fight to the death rather than be con
quered by the barbarous and unfeeling race of human
beings who inhabit the Northern States. If they were
to succeed, the inhabitants of this fair laud would be
under a more horrible yoke than were the children of
Israel in Egypt, and old Abe Lincoln would excel
Pharoah in inflicting heavy burthens and punishments
upon the people. Our people begin to understand
what their doom would be under the Blr.ck Republican
Government, and understanding it as they do, we know
they are ready to die rather than submit, believing
that victory, sooner or later, will certainly perch upon
the banners of those who are fighting for their lives,
liberty, property and honor. Rather than live again
in union with the North, we would a thousand times
prefer to have British authority extended over us and
pay tribute to Queen Victoria; and wc believe this is
the sentiment of a large majority of the Southern
people. Two things are certain one is, that the South
will establish her independence; and the other, that
there never can be any more fellowship and good feel
ing between the two sections.
Confederate Congress. The State of Missouri
having passed a secession ordinance aud ratified the
Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States,
Congress has formally admitted Missouri into the
Southern Confederacy. It is stated that Congress has
refused to make any advances on, or purchase the pro
duce of planters.
"Raising the Black Flag." War is horrible enough
in its mildest aspect, and to be dreaded always as a
public calamity for the time being; but when a gov
ernment steps forth, as the Yankee concern has done,
in the face of & civilized world, and proclaims ten or
twelve millions of freemen " rebels," and threatens the
fate of " pirates" to those takeu upon the high seas,
who arc merely carrying out a principle for which the
said Yankee had conlendid, a spirit of retaliation
is begotten as means of defence which inaugu
rates a carnage at once shocking to humanity and
disgraceful to the age. It is therefore to be hoped that
reason will not entirely leave the fanatical powers at
Washington City; and that they will treat our priva
teersmen as prisoners of war. And it is also to be
hoped that, in the South, all stories of raising 44 black
flags" will be suppressed, though in justice the invader
and robber is entitled to no quarter. We are not sav
ages, and are carrying on no savage warfare, only in so
far as self-defence compels us to retaliate. Let the
North first raise the 44 black flag." Let it be for those
who are the nearest kin to savages to talk of rapine,
murder and conflagration of the rags of womem and
children, and the cry of starving orphans. Truth and
the eternal principles of justice and right require a
resort to no such means. Besides, we should be badly
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SOUrces in that diabolical genius for torture which the
Xorth Can pour from her prisons and penitentiaries,
Uuon the hieh eround of reason, intelligence, energy
Rn(1 in Jomitabie courage, we have millions for defence;
. , hone to win when the contest is nar-
rowed down to barbarism and brutality, and the
weapons to be used, crime and inhumanity 1
Kt.taliation. We understand that when
Major Yodges was informed of the order of the
War Department, to confine him to a cell as a
liC3tage for some of our unfortunate privateersmen
threatened with death at the hands ot the Yankees,
he was quite overcome with the announcement,
and freely said he never would serve under a Gov
ernment again that would not treat prisoners as
prisoners of war, and that if it were in his power
he would advise every friend he had in the Lin-
coin arniv to resign rather than submit to such
deradin" condition. The Major, however, con
ceded the necessity and propriety of retaliation on
our part in such cases. Montgomery Advertiser.
T.iAnt Col Bowman, another of the northern prison-
wno ;s COnnned at Raleigh, is one of those who
are to suffer the same treatment meted out to the 60uth
em privateersmen. We learn that when Col. Bowman
was informed of his situation, aud conveyed to Wake
county Jail, he wept lik a child, lift is said to be a
very gentlemanly man.
The 6tq N. C. Regt. or Volunteers, we under
stand, has been ordered from Western Virginia to
Manassas.
Danville Cokpectio. Whoever expects, or even
makes the attempt, to please everybody, will discover
a simpleton ia the first mirror he looks into. If the
; connection of Greensboro, in Nor.h Carolina, with Dan
' ville, in Virginia, by Railroad, as recommended by
President Davis in his message, were a project for
benefitting directly and personally every individual and
locality in the State, without any drawbacks whatever,
it would be thought sound policy and would be uni
versally popular pleasing everybody, from the fisher
man of the east to the trapper of the west. But be
cause the bare mention of such a project brings up the
dreadful but groundless fear of reduced dividends
upon Railroad stock in certain localities.'The project is
denounced as impolitic, and President Davis a3 being
in the local interest of Richmond ! Such is the charge
made by a writer in the Wilmington Journal. To
characterise such a charge as being unwise, and the
motive of the writer transparent, is to treat him but
half as roughly as he deserves. The building of this
section of road would furnish a shorter, a more central,
and consequently a safer means of transportation for
troops and munitions of war; and the recommendation
by the President was dictated, we doubt not, by a de
sire to promote the interests of the Confederacy by
furnishing facilities for transportation which the mili
tary exigencies of the country may in a short time
absolutely demand. And we do sincerely trust that men
who, in these times of trouble have an eye only for the
weight of their own pockets, may, in some manner that
will conduce to the benefit of the Confederacy, be
lightened of some of their burthen.
If the war continues, every line of Railroad that we
can keep open will be needed, and will leave plenty of
work to do. When peace is declared we trust that
44 through travel" and 44 through freights" will cease to
be important items, by the removal of the causes which
made them bones of contention between the lower and
upper routes. But in the place of these, we trust that
the unparalleled development of our own resources,
which peace will bring, and our own local travel, will
give all our road3 lower as well as upper, cross-wise
as well as parallel an abundance of constant and
lucrative business.
Let us then not fall out about these matters of local
interest, while all are profitably employed, and the
great cause exists for uni'y of action. Then, when
peace again smiles upon u-,, we can profit by the new
order of things brought about by the war things
which revolutions always turn over and purify, as
thunder-storms do the atmosphere.
But apart from all these considerations, the writer
in the Wilmington Journal ought to know that the
44 Danville Convention'' involves a principle of public
right and justice which would just as certainly have
worked itself out ere long a commercial necessity, as
it now will a military necessity.
The only plausible objection that can be raised to
the President's recommendation is that advising Gov
ernment aid for the construction of the proposed road. It
may be making a wrong precedent, though the scheme
is now undoubtedly a military necessity.
The Virginia Convention has amended the State
Constitution of Virginia so as to have the Judges of
the Supreme and Circuit Courts elected by the Legisla
ture instead of by the people.
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JEST The Legislature of Alabama has passed a bill
authorizing the State Treasurer to pay the war tax to
the Confederate Government, provided the amount
which the Government owes Alabama o:i accouut of
war expenitures is deducted.
The Senate of Mississippi has adopted a preamble
and resolution proposing the passage. of effective laws
preventing the growing of another cottou crop until
the present one is disposed of.
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Departure of Troops. Col. R. B. Vance's
fine liegiment of mountain men left here for East
Tennessee, via Petersburg and South Side Kail
road, on Monday evening. They left in high
spirits, sending up cheer after cheer. Raleigh
Register.
Dividend. The Bank of Washington has
declared a semi-annual dividend of five per cent.
Salt Wagons. The wagons passing through
Salem, North Carolina, to the Virginia Salt
Works, averaged some twenty or thirty per day
during the past and the previous week? The
Press learns that there are now, and have been
for weeks, a great many wagons at these works,
(each waon has to wait there some two days
for its turn to load,) and the price of salt has risen
from fifty to seventy-five cents, and now reported
worth one dollar per bushel! We hope the num
erous wagons en route- for the Salt Works, may
not be disappointed in getting a supply', as even
at one dollar per bushel at the works, it may be
afforded in this and adjoining counties at six dol
lars per sack. The trip can be performed in
about twelve days.
Salt. The New Orleans Crescent states that
it was generally understood that there was suffi
cient coarse Halt in that market on the first
of September last to cure 300,000 barrels of
meat. This is as much as was ever received ia
that market for one year. To this, the same paper
states, has since been added 600,000 bushels.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph, of the 13th, aho
announces the successful landing of 3,000 sack3
near that city, notwithstanding the blockade.
Western Virginia. At our last advices,
Gen. Floyd's main body was between Raleigh
Court-House and Peck's Ferry, while the Yankees
having failed to entrap him, had given up the
pursuit and fallen back to Cotton Hill. There is
a prevailing opinion in the West that some prompt
aetion is necessary on the part of the Government
to prevent the enemy fiom advancing upon the
Southwestern and Central Railroads. Our force
in that quarter, according to the opinion of an
intelligent writer, is altogether inadequate. Rich
mond Dispatch.
From tiie Coast. The Charleston Courier
says that a skirmish took place near Buckingham
on Saturday the 23d ult., between the Confeder
ates and the Federal invaders. The Federals at
tempted to land but were driven off. One of our
men was slightly wounded by a shell.
Four Federal steamers shelled Otto Island, near
St. Helena, on Monday, and then landed. They
now hold entire possession of St.' Helena Sound.
Savannah, Nov. 28. The papers of this
morning state that Fort Pulaski, on yesterday,
threw a few shot and shell at the camp of the
Federals on Tybee Island, which caused a Bull
Run stampede to safer quarters on that Island.
There are now six Federal vessels inside of the
bar and five outside.
Brigadiers. Whatever doubts may exist
about most things, one is certain: no future poet
will have to call in vain for a hero. The multitude
of Generals created by both Governments, that at
Washington and that at Richmond exceeds any
thing ever read or dreamed of. It would seem
thatboth parties were impressed with the convic
tion, that victory must incline to the side which
can boast the longest list of Brigadiers. Alexan
der, Cscsar and Napoleon all put together, could
not muster such a uumber of Generals as may be
found at this time on this Continent But while
the demand continues, the article will not depre
ciate. Richmond Whig.
For the Western Democrat. - ",
At a meeting of Hopewell Relief Association, Nov.
27th, the following articles of clothing, provisions, Ac,
were packed and forwarded to Edward Warren, M. D.,
Surgeon Confederate Army, Charlottesville. Va., for
needy soldiers at that place, to-wit: 60 shirts, 12 prs
drawers, 6 towels, cloth purchased and made by the
Association. The contributions were as follows : Mrs
Thos Glagas, blanket, peck potatoes; mrs C F Campbell
2 doz crackers4 pies, peck Irish potatoes; mrs Thos A
Wilson 12 pies, loaf bread; mrs Robt Henderson, quilt,
pillow and case, sage, 10 doz crackers, Bible, pr socks;
mrs Wm A Sample pr sheets ; mrs Margt Davidson
Bible: missS A Wilson 6 prs socks; mrs Jane B Whitley,
miss Nannie Alexander 3 prs 60cks each; miss Cashion
and miss Stockton 3 prs socks; mrs Robt Whitley, mrs
A B Davidson, mrs Price Duck, miss Laura Hampton,
mi3s S May Hampton, 2 prs socks each: mrs S H David
son, mrs Wm McKeboy, mrs Joseph Harrison, mrs Jas
M Wilson, mrs T N McNeely, miss M A Grier, mis3
Cornelia Alexander, miss M M C Henderson, miss M J
Henderson, miss Mag Wier, 1 pr socks each; miss V J
Alexander 2 pecks turnips. The Association also gave
20 thirts, 20 prs drawers and 2 prs socks to the Meck
lenburg Farmers, in September.
Mrs. M. E. HENDERSON, Pres't.
XT. J. L. Henderson, Sec'y.
Far the Western Democrat.
The following was unavoidably crowded out of our
last issue.
Waxhaw, Nov. 11th, 18G1.
Mr. Editor : The following is a list of articles con
tributed, by the Ladies' Aid Society of Waxhaw and
Cain Creeks. The Society was organized in Septem
ber, and two large boxes have been forwarded to Capt.
Steele's company, in care of Lieutenant Wilson. And
they intend to continue the good work until the last
yard of cloth, and the last dollar that can be come at
i3 exhausted :
Mrs E J Walknp, blanket, 2 pr drawers, 2 shirts, h pr
socks, 5 scarfs, 50 cts., made 2 garments; mrs M E
Neely, coverlet, 4 pr socks. 4 scarfs, 6 pr gloves, G yds
linsey, 50 cts., made 2 garments; mrs II E Walker,
blanket, quilt, 3 pr socks, made 5 garments; mrs M
Robinson, comfort, 3 pr socks, made 7 garments; miss
A Cureton, blanket, pr socks, 3 scarfs, made 5 gar
ments; mrs M Wilson, blanket, comfort, made 4 gar
ments; miss M L Nesbit, blanket, comfort, cash 51,
made 3 garments; mrs S Norwood, quilt, scarf, made 4
garments: mrs S Stamps, coverlet, made 2 garments;
mra M E McCain, miss Mary Heath, mrs Hester Heath,
1 comfort each; mrs Jane M Grey, blanket, 2 pr socks,
scarf, made 2 garments; mrs M Richardson 2 yds linsey;
mrs M E Massey, blanket, 2 scarfs, made 5 garments;
mrs S McNeely 4 pr gloves; mrs D Walkup, mrs E Mc
Corkle 3 pr socks each; mrs J Norwood, blanket, made
5 garments; mrs M C McCain, blanket, made 2 gar
ments; miss F E Norwood, miss E Wilson, mrs M J Mc
Cain, mrs II McCain, miss Sarah Stewart, miss Sarah J
Walkup, mrs J M Walkup, miss S E Craig, mrs Mary
Craig, miss Mag Stewrt, miss P A Floyd, mrs E
Stewart, miss Jane Floyd, made 1 garment each; mrs
Dr Williams, mrs Sterns, made 3 garments each: miss
Julia Walkup, mrs S E McCorkle made 4 garments
each; miss M J McCorkle 2 scarfs, made 5 garments;
mrs M A Irby, miss Betty Rone, mrs R lnman, miss
Fannie Norwood, 1 pr socks each; miss Nancy Cureton
8 lbs wool; miss Janette Crane 3 scarfs, pr gloves, made
4 garments; miss C Richardson, quilt, pr socks, towel;
mrs J T Cureton pr socks, made 1 garment; miss M D
Steele, miss Jane Montgomery, mrs L Stewart make 2
garments each; Col M Stewart, blanket, pr gloves, 4 pr
socks, 2 pr drawers, 2 shirts, buudle rags; miss Dora
Patterson, miss P P Neelv. miss J Given?, mr J J M
Heath 2 pr socks each; mrs D A Covington, blanket, 2
piilows, table cloth, pr socks, bag sage and pepper;
miss Mollie, miss M W, miss S G aud miss C A Cov
ington, 1 pr socks each; mrs J Gathings blanket, 4 pr
socks; mrs E Yandle 3 pr socks; Hugh Wilson, Col W
W Walkup. J A McNeely $5 each: B J Cureton 2; W
B Cairns $1; W Crow 14 yds linsey, 3 pr socks; J N
Davis 16 yds linsey; H R Massay 5 lbs wool. 12 pr
socks; J N Neely G yds jeans; Affy, servant of Mr Wilson,
yarn for scarfs: Martha and Ely, servants of Col.
Walkup, 1 scarf each; Eliza, servant of Mrs Cureton,
yarn for scarfs. Numerous other articles were con
tributed, names of the douors not known. G.
For Ike Western Democrat.
Clear Creek, Mecklenburg Co., Nov. 20, 1361.
Mr. Editor: The Ladies in the congregation of
Philadelphia met at the church Saturday, October 12,
and formed a Soldier's Aid Society. Since that time
they have made and forwarded to the Soldiers a box
containing the following articles: 7 blankets, 17 sheets,
5 comforts, 2 quilts, 17 pillows and cases, 2 bed-ticks.
29 prs socks, 17 towels, 21 pillowslips, 6 prs cotton
drawers, 3 cotton shirts, 1 lb candles, 1 Testament, 1
bottle wine, 1 bottle vinegar, rolls of bandages and
bundles of sage and pepper.
Mrs. F. M. MAXWELL, Pres't.
Mrs. A. D. Pfiarr, Sec'y.
For the Western Democrat.
CORRESPONDENCE.
Ragged Island, Va., Nov. 15, 1861.
Col. W. M. Griir Dear Sir: The members of the
Ranalesburg Rifles, feeling that you have been untirTng
in your efforts for the welfare of the Company hare,
by way of giving expression to their gratitude, unani
mously elected you an Honorary Member thereof; with
all the privileges of an active member, while we re
main an organized body.
Very respectfullv, &c,
S. W. ALEXANDER,)
W. W. ROBINSON, Com.
W. S. M. HART, J
Rasged Island, Va., Nov. ID, 18GI.
Gentlemen : Your note to me of the loth inst., has
been received, apprising me of my election as an Hon
orary Member of your Company (the Ranalesburg
Rifles.) The honor you have conferred on me I duly
appreciate; and I do hereby accept.
You are pleased to refer in your note, in flattering
terms, to the feeble efforts I have made for the Com
pany. I am sorry that I have done so little and could
not have done more for you. I have done nothing but
what it was my duty to do for you and my country,
which I hope to continue to do until the Confederate
flag shall wave in triumph throughout our beloved
South. Please present my best wishes to those whom
you represent. Yours truly, W. M. GRIER.
For the Western Democrat.
STATEMENT,
Showing Receipt and Disbursement of the Soldier' Aid
Society, Charlotte, from Oct. 1st to Nov. 1st.
Received by donation from Rev Mr Eberhart $2, Mrs
Bryce 5, mrs Jas P Irwin 50, mrs J M Osborne 10, mrs
Wra J Hayes 5, D Parks Hutchison 5, a Friend 5, B
Koopman, Esq. 5, miss Cureton 1, miss M S Alexander
5, miss A L Alexander 5, mrs V W Alexander 5, mrs
C J Fox 5; received from M W Robison, being proceeds
of two Concerts given under the management of Prof.
R F Hunt, 183 30; mrs Heilbrun 5, mrs J J Blackwood
5, mrs Sarah Young 10, mrs M B Taylor 5, mrs Chas
Torrence 5. fines 1 75. sales 13 70; balance in treasury
Oct. 1st $64 61; total $401 36. The expenses of the
Society during the same period have been $1S0 97
leaving in the treasury Nov. 1st, $220 39.
The Society received a donation of 40 lbs wool from
mrs J L Morehead: also 1 pr of socks from mrs S A
Harris, 3 prs of socks from mrs J C Burroughs, 1 pr
from miss Malvina Alexander. Spinning has been done
for the Society by Mrs Osborne, mrs Betsy Kennedy,
mrs C Torrence, mrs Chas Rudisill, mrs W F Davidson,
mrs V W Alexander and Mrs Morehead. The amount
of sewing work accomplished by the Society has been,
105 pairs of osnaburg drawers, 760 pairs of gloves for
the 4th Regt. State Troops, 92 bed-ticks for the same
Regt., and 30 prs of pantaloons for Capt John White's
company, the ''York Guards." There have been 18
prs of socks knit out of material belonging to the
Society. There has been sent to Col. Stephen Lee's
regiment in Western Virginia: 1 box, containing 114 pr
drawers, 95 shirts, 28 prs socks and 2 quilts. Most of
the articles were made in the month of September.
There has been given to the Sugar Creek Aid Society
74 lbs of wool. Mrs. T. W. DEWEY,
Sec. and Treas. S. A. S.
A Disappointment. It is stated that Calvin
Huson, a nephew of Hon. Wm. II. Seward, who
was takeB prisoner at Manassas and subsequent! j
died in prison at Richmond, came on with the
"Grand Army" with the expectation or promise
of being made Governor of Virginia after its ex
pected conquest by the battle of Manassas. It is
singular that he should be taken prisoner along
with Ely, who beat him for Congress,
WAB NEWS.
Richmond, Kot. 30. Congress passed resterdaj and
the President approved to-day, an Act enabling the people
of Missouri to elect members to the Honsa of Representa
tives of the Confederate . Congress. . Nothing new from
the camps. -.
The town of Warsaw, Missouri, was burned to the
ground by the Lincolnites on Tuesday of last week.
Nashville, Nov. 29. A gentleman who arrived" from
Clarksville this evening, says that a dispatch was received
there from Gen. Forrest, which says that a scouting party
of COO cavalry attacked the Lincolnites near Madisonville,
Ky., to-day, completely routing them and killing about
eighty. No other particulars.
From Pknsacola. The latest advices from Pen
sacola are to the 26th. The officers think there will
be no more fighting until the arrival of the fleet, which
may be looked for at any moment. The total loss in
dead on the Confederate side is seven six killed by
the caving in of the cover pf a magazine. The '-red
flag" floats over our batteries a standing invitation
for the enemy to come on. During the canuonade the
enemy fired from Pickens about six thousand shot.
It is reported that there are three breaches in Pickens.
Columbia Carolinian.
Burning tub Crops. Charleston, Nov. 29. Tht
patriotic planters of the sea-board are wisely applying
the torch to the crops of .-otton and rice. Some of the
planters who have not the heart to apply the torch
themselves, have authorized the military authorities to
destroy their crops to prevent their falling into the
hands of the enemy. The plantations on North Edisto
and the neighborhood, and elswhere on the coast
of South Carolina, are one sheet of flame and smoke
Washington. Nov. 22. It has been officially nscer-
tained that the federal Government has now in the field.
camp aud in process of formation, six hundred thousand
volunteers.
A special despatch to the Cincinnati Commercial, dated
Washington, the 20th, says that at a supper given to
frenttss by r orney, last night, feenator Cameron reitera
ted his opinion that the last resort of the Federal Govern
ment ought to be to arm avery man who desires to strike
for human liberty. (This means, arming the negrors-
but the viiiians will accomplish nothing at that game.)
Wilmington, Del., Nov. 20. Dupont's powder mills
exploded to-day, destroying three mills and killing three
men.
ANOTHER BRILLIANT VICTORY I
More Laurel for North Carolina m Yankee Cavalry
Regiment Utterly Routed with a Lot of 106 Killed and
26 Taken Prisoners!
We have the gratification of announcing upon un
questionable a ithority, the complete success of a skir
mish beyond Manassas, in which the First North Caro
lina Cavalry Regiment played a distinguished part.
On Tuesday morning last, at early dawn, Col Rob
ert Ransom, with a large body of his cavalry, who now
occupy an advanced position near Centreville, started
out upon a scouting expedition. They bad proceeded
but a few miles when they fell in with the Third Pen
sylvania Cavalry Regiment, commanded by Col Averill.
At the command of their leader, the North Caroli
nians made a dashing charge upon the Hessians, kill
ing 106 and taking 26 prisoners, also a large number
of horses, arms and equipments.
The Pennsylvanians were utterly routed, and fled in
Bull Run style, leaving their dead and wounded on the
field. Strange to state, net a man on our side was lost.
This is certainly one of the most gallant and remark
able affairs of the kind which has occurred during the
war, and Col. Ransom has quickly won for himself a
distinction of which he may well be proud We con
gratulate him and the noble Old North State upon the
brilliant result of his expedition. Petersburg Express,
30M.
In Richmond Coffee is soiling at $1 20 to $1 50 per lb,
and board at the hotels is $3 a day, aud 50 crnU extra
for fires. Day board at good boarding houses may still
be had for $20 a month.
SyThe Mayor of Charleston gives notice to any
persons who wish to leave the city, that in conformi
ty with the instructions of General Lee, no persan
will be allowed to leave the city without a permit
from the Mayor.
.
Over 28,000 troops were reviewed in New
Orleans on the 24th ult., by Gov. Moore, of La.
The line was over seven miles long. One regi
menf, numbering 1,400, were free colored men.
The military display was one of the grandest ex
hibitions ever witnessed on this continent. One
of the companies displayed a black flag, with the
motto, "We give and take no quarters."
JIoio to cure Bacon with little Salt.
Dr Wm. B. Young Dear Sir : In these times
of extreme scarcity of salt, you will confer a kind
ness on the public, in publishing a recipe you gave
me for curing meat and making sausage.
Yours truly, J. M. McCue.
Col. J. M. McCue Dear Sir: In accordance
with your request I send you the llecipe for cur
ing bacon, and will state that I have been using it
for 12 years, lt requires a bushel of salt to 2,000
to 2,500 lbs of Pork. I prefer the bacon cured
by this recipe to any that I have ever eaten, and
the quality of the bacon as well as its economy
must commend it to all at the present time.
Respectfully yours, W. B. Young.
For Bacon To 5 gallons water add 7 lbs salt,
1 lb sugar, (or 1 pint molasses,) 1 tea-spoonful
saltpetre mix, and after sprinkling the flesh 6ide
of the hams in the salt, pack in a tight barrel,
hams first, then shoulders, lastly middlings. Pour
over the brine and if not enough to cover, make
another draft of the above and repeat till all is
covered leaving the meat in brine from 4 to 7
weeks according to size.
For Sausage Take 1 or 2 lbs brown sugar to
100 lbs meat, mix with pepper and salt and let no
water come in contact with the meat. The sugar
prevents the sausage from becoming strong.
Making Bacon. The Charleston Mercury
says that during the revolutionary war good bacon
was made with one peck of salt and an abundance
of hickory ashes to six hundred pounds. In
applying the ashes, it is well to have a bucket of
molasses and apply a portion with a white wabiog
brush to each joint. When well smeared, rub
on the ashes, which will thus adhere firmly and
make an impenetrable cement.
THANKSGIVING.
Proclamation by the Governor of North Carolina
It is at all times our sacred duty to give thanks to
Almighty God for the manifold blessings we enjoy.
This solemn duty is still more imperative at periods of
national trial and responsibility, when we feel more
deeply that God has been our support in all the vicis
situdes of fortune. To us as a State, He has ever been
kind and protecting; mid thus far iu our new career as
a separate and independent nation we have been a high
ly favored people.. Instead of famine and pestilence, i
health and plenty have prevailed, and if instead ofj
peace, it hath seemed good in His wisdom, for our past
sins, to afflict us with the calamities of war, to our
arms He hath given the victory, and a heavenly earnest
of a final triumph over all our enemies.
Relying upon His dirine Providence for continued
protection, in all our troubles, and that He may still
vouchsafe to us as a people, wisdom in council, victory
in battle, health and plenty in all our land, and estab
lish on firm foundations our national independence and
ifippiness, let us give thanks that the God of our
Fathers bath been our God, and supplicate. His Holy
Name that He may ever continue His favor to us and
our children to tht latest generations.
I, therefore. Henry T. Clark, Governor ex officio of ths
State of North Carolina, do hereby set apart Thurs
day the 5th day of December next, as a day of solemn
and public THANKSGIVING to Almighty God; and
recommend that, on that day all our usual avocations
be suspended, and that the reverend Clergy of all da
nominations, thronghout the State, invite their several
congregations to repair to their usual places of public
worship to render thanks to our Heavenly Father for
all His past blessings, and supplicate for His continued
kindness and care over us as a State and aation. .
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name,
aud caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed,
this I9tb day of November, in the year of oar Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
HENRY T. CLARK, Got. x ojfiti:
JVT A.3ELH TTnX,
In Kewbern, on the 28th nit, Capt. J. N. Whltfort
to Miss Mary Williamson.
Near Raleigh, on the 23d nit, Major Charles L. Eia
ton, aged 69 years. He was Public Treatarer of UU
State for several years.
NOTICE.
All claims against the Saddle and Harness establish,
meat of the subscriber, will be settled by Mr Robert
Shaw, aud all indebted to the same will please make
payment to him, as it is necessary to close up the ul
standing business.
n. U. PRITCHAItD.
Dec 3, 1861 lm pd
COTTON SEED WANTED.
The undersigned will pay the highest cash price for
Cotton Seed, at their Oil Works, five miles south-east ,
of Charlotte, at Isaac N. Alexander's mills.
STEPHENS k WH1SNAXT.
Dec 3, 1801 tf
FOR HIRE.
The Negroes of Misses Mary and Martha Johnston,
fifteen to twenty in number, will be hired at Castaai
Grove on the 1st of January, 1862, for the year.
S. X. JOHNSTON, Agent.
Dec 3, 18C1 4t-pd
WOOL ! WOOL!
Expected to arrive in a few days,
70,0
LBS. WOOL, which will be
j soia on accommodating terms.
Dec. 3
TRfiLOAIl & BLAIR,
Milch Cows.
Wanted to purchase two good Milch Cows. Apply
at this Office. Dec. 3d.
Attention! Charlotte Beat No. 9.
You are hereby summoned to appear at the Church,
yard, armed and equipped as the law directs for .
muster and drill, next Saturday, Dec. 1th, at 10 o'clock
a. u. By order, J. N. HUNTER, Capt.
II. Lipsoif, O. S. ,
N. B. Defaulters will be dealt with according to
law. December 3. lt
Confederate States or America,
Distbict or Noam Caroi.iba,
' District or Cape Fbak.
At a session of this Court in the town of Wilmington
in the above aamed District, on the lth day of No.
vember, A. D. 1861, it was
Ordered, That the next term of the Court be held
at the Court Housein the town of Salisbury, on the
2d Monday of February, A. D. 1862; and that all eauses
peuding in said Court, be adjourned, and all process ,
be returned to that day.
JNO. L. CANTWELL, Clerk.
Dec. 3, 1861. 2Jm
ATTENTION FARMERS.
The Farmers of Mecklenburg county are requested
to meet in Charlotte at the Court-House, on Friday, ,
the 6tb day of December, to take into consideration
the high price of Salt and other necessaries of life, and
to adopt such measures for their protection against ex
tortioners as the necessity of the limes demand.
Dec 3, 1861 MANY CITIZENS
Charlotte Market, Dec. 2, 1801. -
Produce of all kinds has advanced since our last re-
port, eicept cotton.
Flour has been selling at $ to $4 33 per sack, and .
the demand i still good.
Corn 55 to 60 cents per bushel; Peas 65; Rye $1 31,
but none offering.
Wheat has advanced to $1 35 and $1 5t per bushel. .
The demand is not supplied.
About 60 bales of Cotton were sold last week. Dor.
ing the first part of the week the price ranged at about
8j rents, but towads the close there was a decline, and
vi iivii u vu vs ta va tv ijuviv a m J e
Pork sells at from i to 10 cents, though there bag
been but little offering.
Whiskey $1 per gallon some sales have been mad
at higher figures. Apple Brandy $1 25 per gallon.
New Orleans Molasses 75 cents per gallon. N. O.
Sugar 11 to 12$ cents per lb.
Bagging and Rope is very scarce.
COLUMBIA, Nov 30. 120 bales cotton were sold
during the week at 6 to 8 cts extremes. Flour f 3 7
to $4 50 per sack; Corn 75 to 80; Peas 80.
CHARLESTON, Nov 28 25 bales cotton changed
hands the past week at 8 cents. Bacon sides 30 to 32
cts per lb ; Flour $9 50 to $10 75 per barrel; Com 9i ,
cts to $1 per bu.hel; Oats 90 cts. ; ,
Cotton was quoted in New York, en th 27th, at 244e.
for middling uplands.
Headquarters S5fh Rec NX'. 7111111a,
CHARLOTTE, Nov. 25, 1861.
The Commissioned officers of the 85th Regiment will
meet in Charlotte on FRIDAY the 6tb of December for
the purpose of forming two Regiments in Mecklenburg
county. By order of the Adjutant General,
J. Y. Bit I (JK, Col. Com.
All Officers not commissioned, but entitled to the
same, will report themselves.
Nov 26th.
Save Your LEATHER or Your
MONEY.
KARL KAHNWEILER, at Dallas, Gaston county,
will pay 12J cents for Dry or CJ cts for Green HIDES,
or will Tan them for one-half of the Leather His ex
perience in the business, he feels assured, will enable
him to give his friends and customers full satisfaction.
Mr R. Lay, an experienced workman, or myself, will
always be found on the Yard. Please give me a trial.
KARL KAHNWEILER.
Dallas, Nov. 26, 1861 6t-pd -
Milbiirnie Paper Mills,
RALEIGH, N. C.
The Neuse Manufacturing Company pay cash and
the highest market price for COTTON AND LINKS
RAGS. N. B. Not Woolen Rags.
Present price 3 cents per pound, delivered at either
Depot in Raleigh. S. H. ROGERS, Pres't.
Address II. W. Husted, TreasV.
Nov 26tb. 4t ;
DIES WANTEI7 "
The Book Accounts of J. A. FOX, and also these ef
J. M. HOWIE, contracted in the Foundry business, are
in my hands for settlement and collection. No one,
else has authority in the latter case. Those interested
will act wisely to heed this notice before the 10th of
October proximo.
A. C. WILLIAMSON,
Sept 17. 1861 Attorney.
Snuff, Snufl, Siiufl!
Jnit received, a fresh lot of genuine Lorilard'a Hgk
Toast Scotch Snuff. Cheap at
PALMERS VARIETY STORE.
Sept 24, 1861
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified as administrator of
the estate of H. B. Monteith, at the October sessions,
1861, of Mecklenbnrg Connty Court, all persoas in
debted to said estate are requested to come forward
and n.ke payment; and those having claims against
the same are required to present them within the Urn
prescribed by law, or this notice will be pleaded la bar
of their recovery. .
' A. A. ALEXANDER, Adm'r.
November 5, 1861 4t-pd
TAKE NOTICE.
The Accounts and. Notes due I. LOEWENSTEIX
are in my bands for collection and settlement. All
persons indebted, will please come forward and settle
without delay. - - - - '
J. 1XG2XB2UX.
KoTeme.rs-, tl Is